Speaker: Patricia Melville

In this seminar, you will learn about mentoring, including its definition and purpose, the benefits of mentoring, the skills approach to making a mentorship relationship work, techniques for evaluating the mentoring process as a whole as well as how to be a mentor yourself!

In partnership with Reception House Waterloo Region, St. Jerome’s University will be hosting its second MINKA on October 27 and 28, 2017. The topic of discussion for this year’s event is “Host to Home: Deepening connections and understanding the refugee journey in Kitchener-Waterloo.”

The change of seasons often brings an influenza outbreak. Although influenza activity generally peaks around January, it takes the body about two weeks after vaccination to develop antibodies that will protect against influenza virus infection. For that reason, it's important to get vaccinated before the seasonal outbreak, especially if you fall into the high-risk category. Students, staff, and faculty are invited to get their influenza vaccination through Health Services.

Isaac Operations delivers increased profit through performance improvement of any manufacturing, engineering or business process. We are engineers who use our technical ability to solve problems in a broad variety of settings - from ice cream to submarines.

Good intentions. Good ends. Failure. People usually assume peacebuilding is morally good because well-intentioned people are pursuing good ends. Likewise, reconciliation. But, what happens when the moral values that drive peacebuilding become a problem?

Reina Neufeldt explores how moral and ethical claims that are intrinsic to peacebuilding can contribute to failure and can be part of transformational engagement in her lecture titled, "When Good Intentions are not Enough: Confronting Ethical Challenges in Peacebuilding and Reconciliation." Join us on October 26th at 7:30 in the Chapel.

As part of our WaterTalk lecture series Kevin Boyle, professor of agricultural and applied economics and director of the Program in Real Estate at Virginia Tech, presents, " From the Exxon Valdez to the BP Deep Water Horizon Oil Spills: A story of economic damages from four major environmental contamination events."

Isaac Operations delivers increased profit through performance improvement of any manufacturing, engineering or business process. We are engineers who use our technical ability to solve problems in a broad variety of settings - from ice cream to submarines.

The Politics of Grey Data: Digital Methods, Intimate Proximity, and Research Ethics for Work on “Alt-Right” Groups such as #GamerGate

In discussing the grey data in terms of access, storage, archiving, and datafication, this talk will also explore the question of researching a specifically vocal and unwilling subject: the #GamerGate movement.

The change of seasons often brings an influenza outbreak. Although influenza activity generally peaks around January, it takes the body about two weeks after vaccination to develop antibodies that will protect against influenza virus infection. For that reason, it's important to get vaccinated before the seasonal outbreak, especially if you fall into the high-risk category. Students, staff, and faculty are invited to get their influenza vaccination through Health Services.

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) allow us to learn predictive models and control policies for larger, more complex systems than ever before. However, some important real world domains such as forest wildfire spread, flooding​ and medical imaging present a particular challenge. They contain spatially spreading processes (SSP) where some local features change over time based on proximity in space. This talk will present new approaches to​ learning for SSPs using Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning such as learning a model of wildfire spread from satellite images as if the wildfire were an agent making decisions about where to move next. This approach could lead to learning models which are more interpretable and aid domain experts in creating rich, agent-based models based on data.

Please enjoy some refreshments and meet Dr. Crowley and other attendees from 1:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Composed by Carol Ann Weaver, "Songs for My Mother - from Appalachia to Africa" is a song cycle based on writings from her mother Miriam L. Weaver's pioneering life in Appalachian Kentucky in the 1940s (primitive house, flat iron, Hard Shell Baptists who met outside on the hillside), her travels to Africa, and her return to Virginia with poignant words about her sudden impending death in the 90s.